Originally Posted by alphaeagle
I've been looking around trying to figure out how the skyteam elite program works. How does skyteam know when I reach 25,000 miles? I have about 20k of miles so far on NW, and I'm about to get 8k on Alitalia that I can't put into NW. Does skyteam magically know that I flew all of those? Or do I have to get 25k on a single airline? I will be reaching the 50k mark soon too, but once again it won't be on one airline, I have to spread the miles out across various sky team airlines. Thanks!
You have to earn status with one airline, usually not much sense in spreading miles over several different airlines within the same alliance. Why do you 'have to' spread them